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Ashley Christensen is one of the busiest chefs in Raleigh. She opened her first restaurant, Poole's, in 2007 and has been a semifinalist for the James Beard Award in 2013 and 2014. Since 2007, she has opened five more venues in Raleigh with three more planned for 2014.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 3, Mar 2014,
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Statistics point toward faster economic growth for the North Carolina in 2014. Business North Carolina recently gathered a panel of business executives and state leaders to share their expectations for the coming year. The transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Feb 2014,
p14-21, por
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Campbell examines marijuana growing in North Carolina. Although it has not joined the ranks of other states where it is legal, estimates place the state's crop state at $670 million in 2006. This is higher than tobacco at $496.1 and cotton at $302.6 million and puts North Carolina sixth in the nation.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 3, Mar 2014,
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The report of Luther Terry, Surgeon-General of the United States, and his committee--titled Smoking and Health--was released to reporters on January 11, 1964. The meeting was in a sealed room at the State Department with guards at the doors. The essence of this report was that smoking was \"a health hazard of such importance to the United States to warrant immediate action.\" Although politicians and farmers in North Carolina denied it, it marked the beginning of the end for the state's money crop. In 1964 there were 87,576 tobacco farmers in the state and in 2007 there were 2,622.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 3, Mar 2014,
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The bison has come back from the brink of extinction and is now a source of healthy eating is restaurants and home kitchens. Hughes visits Carolina Bison Co., owned by Frank King in Buncombe County, to examine the farm's operations.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 3, Mar 2014,
p62-67, il
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Many biotechnology discoveries and products are made in the state. The $59 billion it puts into the state's economy is second behind agriculture, and it employs 237,000 people. Business North Carolina recently gathered a panel of experts to discuss questions such as What role will biotechnology play in the state's future? and What does it need to get there? as well as other questions. The published transcript is edited for brevity and clarity.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
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North Carolina ranks fifth in peanut production, producing 435 million pounds in 2012 with a value of $150 million. Luther Powell and his brother-in-law, Jonathan Stokes, started a farm-supply business in in Windsor in Bertie County in 1919. Peanuts was one of the crops they purchased. Although they shared peanuts at the store and in meetings, it was not until 1992 that they began marketing their well-known product, Bertie County Peanuts.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
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On February 2, 2014, a storage pond at a retired Duke Energy coal-fired power plant in Eden poured over 2.35 million gallons of toxic water and about 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. It was the third-largest coal-ash spill in the nation's history. Martin recounts events before and after the spill. A map locates the fourteen sites where Duke Energy stores 106 million tons of coal-ash; some plants are active and some are retired. Cleaning up the coal-ash ponds could cost customers over $1 billion.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
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Harold Varner graduated from East Carolina University in 2012. At the University he was a member of the golf team, and in 2012 he became the first ECU men's golfer to win Conference USA player of the year. He is also the first African American to win the NC Amateur Championship. Now he has his sights set on becoming one of the rarest things in golf--an African American pro.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
p60-65, por
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The North Carolina Golf Panel, a group of about 135 journalists, golf pros, college coaches, noted amateurs, and business leaders, rank North Carolina's top one hundred courses. A minimum of forty had to vote for a course for it to qualify, and panelists could only vote for the ones they've played.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 4, Apr 2014,
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Spencer discusses the beer and wine industry in the state, as well as new emerging distilleries. The state has strict laws that liquor cannot flow as freely as beer and wine. The state also has a reputation for making illegal moonshine, but anyone with the right permits can distil liquor. Although Prohibition repeal was decades ago, the state's first legal distillery did not open till ten years ago. Now there are 14 distilleries in North Carolina, compared to 146 wineries and 82 breweries.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Feb 2014,
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North Carolina is one of two states to own a railroad--the North Carolina Railroad, running from Morehead City in a 317-mile arc to Charlotte. Chartered in 1849, it is the state's oldest corporation. Edwards recounts the railroad's history and discusses whether the state should own it.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Feb 2014,
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Honda Aircraft, a subsidiary of Honda Motors, was founded in 2006 and is headquartered at Greensboro's Piedmont Triad International Airport. The HondaJet is the company's first general-aviation aircraft and Honda anticipates FAA certificate early in 2015 with delivery for the first 100 orders to begin thereafter. The plane can carry up to seven, including crew, and costs $4.5 million. Hughes explains why Honda chose Greensboro and what they expect to produce in the coming years.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Feb 2014,
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On February 2, 2014, a storage pond at a retired Duke Energy coal-fired power plant in Eden poured over 2.35 million gallons of toxic water and about 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River--the third-largest coal-ash spill in the nation's history. A complicating factor in the fallout following the spill is that Governor Pat McCrory worked thirty years for the company that caused the spill. Mooneyham speculates how this will affect the race for Governor in 2016.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 5, May 2014,
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State farmers are developing new products from longtime crops to attract customers and increase their income. For example, Covington Spirits, based in Snow Hill, makes vodka purchased from locally grown sweet potatoes, mostly from nearby Ham Produce Company, which supplies them to the distiller in a pureed process Hams helped to develop. A number of farmers are cutting out the middle man and packaging their own harvest for the marketplace, thereby putting more money into their own pockets.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 5, May 2014,
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